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24 They will be starved and sick,
    destroyed by terrible diseases.
I will send them vicious animals
    and gliding, poisonous snakes.
25 In the streets the sword will kill;
    in their homes there will be terror.
Young men and women will die,
    and so will babies and gray-haired men.
26 I will scatter them as I said,
    and no one will remember them.

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24 I will send wasting famine(A) against them,
    consuming pestilence(B) and deadly plague;(C)
I will send against them the fangs of wild beasts,(D)
    the venom of vipers(E) that glide in the dust.(F)
25 In the street the sword will make them childless;
    in their homes terror(G) will reign.(H)
The young men and young women will perish,
    the infants and those with gray hair.(I)
26 I said I would scatter(J) them
    and erase their name from human memory,(K)

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